Jeffrey Averill would walk his dogs on the UCLA campus every morning and make a mental list of problems he noticed with the campus’ architecture and design. Read more...
Photo: Jeffrey Averill was UCLA’s campus architect and was responsible for ensuring a continuous architectural style among the old and new buildings on campus. (UCLA Newsroom)
Associated Students UCLA officials are looking for ways to increase revenue from a new print shop in Ackerman Union. The Bruin Custom Print center started selling T-shirt designs, poster printing and embroidery at the beginning of winter 2017. Read more...
Photo: Associated Students UCLA officials want to increase revenue from Bruin Custom Print, a new print shop that opened in January in Ackerman Union. (Erin Gong/Daily Bruin)
A new UCLA council will advise the chancellor on how to help the immigrant community on campus, Chancellor Gene Block announced Wednesday. Officials created the Chancellor’s Advisory Council on Immigration in response to President Donald Trump’s administration’s immigration ban revision, Block said in an email to students and faculty. Read more...
Photo: Chancellor Gene Block announced a new Advisory Council on Immigration in an email Wednesday, which would work to advise him on ways to better help UCLA’s immigrant community. (Frank To/Daily Bruin)
The UCLA Anderson School of Management will offer a degree in business analytics beginning in the fall. The new 13-month program is designed to create expertise in extracting useful analytics from troves of data available in business, said Judy Olian, Anderson School of Management dean. Read more...
Photo: The Anderson School of Management will begin offering a Masters of Science in Business Analytics in the fall to help meet the needs of businesses that have large quantities of data to process but lack employees with the proper skill set. (Habeba Mostafa/Daily Bruin)
Students can now text a number to get instant answers about campus food, study and rental facilities. A new text service with information on topics such as dining hall hours, study location hours, library rentals and John Wooden Center hours launched Monday. Read more...
Photo: Sandra Rhee, undergraduate student government facilities commissioner, introduced a new text service Monday where students can ask questions about campus services. (Jintak Han/Assistant Photo editor)
One of the sexual harassment reports released by the University of California on Tuesday involved a rape allegation against a UCLA employee. An undergraduate student, whose name was redacted in the report, alleged Tarundeep Sandhu, a former UCLA School of Dentistry employee, raped the student while she was intoxicated after going out to a bar together. Read more...
UCLA won an award Tuesday for its achievements in reducing drinking water consumption. The award, presented at the third annual Innovation Awards from the Los Angeles Better Buildings Challenge, recognized UCLA for conserving more than 28 million gallons of water last year, according to a press release. Read more...
Photo: UCLA has connected 22 buildings to a system that collects water from runoff, laboratories and air conditioners for use in a central cooling facility. The system is part of the school’s efforts to save more than 28 million gallons of water annually. (Courtesy of Nurit Katz)
